In all the consumer sites I've worked with, we've consistently dealt - and re-dealt - with how best to manage and promote "the community," provide incentive to participate, reward the good, deëmphasize the unwanted. Prodigy's early effort to put their employees in charge of specific topics and give those employees the ability to "deputize" their…
Author: Steve McNally
I build products, teams and business lines that blend publishing, marketing and advertising technologies for global brands and startups.
Good Crowd in the Cloud
A collegue forwarded this note about a new Aptana product release. Joyent is a competitor to Amazon Web Services. They're significantly smaller, but recently, Aptana released beta software that makes deployments to Joyent's cloud pretty simple. photo credit: ecstaticist They currently support standard LAMP deployments; plans include Rails and Python. Aptana's got a good history…
Parking meters and When Technology Helps
Parking meters, like turnstiles on the subway, used to be hardy, mechanical things. You put a coin in, the coin bit a cog's tooth, you turned. They worked and stood up to use and weather. photo credit: viZZZual.com Most parking meters are now computers. Even in small towns, the computers now dispense tickets, read magnetic…
iphones and clouds
The 2.02 update helps some. I can listen to music while playing poker. Mobile me is a possibility. A trial to ensue it hooks up well with the google apps running our intranet. With that running in the ether, thoughts turn to other environments doing so. There are a number of interesting possibilities. I'd like…